Liberty School

Liberty School is one of the modestly sized K-5 schools in MURRAY, Utah, overseen by Murray District, with 244 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. That puts it 50% smaller than the typical public school in Utah, which averages around 491 students.

Murray District runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 5,678 students. Liberty School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Liberty School lists that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 29% Hispanic, 9% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.8:1, putting Liberty School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 53% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Salt Lake County's rate of about 34%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Liberty School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.0%; this one delivers 41.2%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Salt Lake County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,494 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Salt Lake County's 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), Liberty School is one campus in the mix.

Early Childhood Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Liberty School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.3%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Liberty School's enrollment has ticked down 35% since 2018, when it stood at 378 (now 244). Over the same period, the White share fell from 73% to 52%.

Inside the community feed, members of the Liberty School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.